Mr. John Ventola

John F. Ventola is department chair of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP’s Finance & Restructuring Group in Boston, and has more than 25 years of experience representing banks, direct lenders, hedge funds and distressed investors, helping to guide them through a wide range of complex lending and corporate restructuring issues, including chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He also is a member of Choate’s Executive Committee. Mr. Ventola’s lending experience includes representing financial institutions in complex, multi-tranche financial transactions, including asset-based, cash-flow, term, second-lien, DIP, FILO and mezzanine loans, along with preferred stock and other junior capital investments. He also has deep restructuring experience, having practiced extensively in bankruptcy courts across the country in connection with a range of issues, including cash-collateral disputes, equitable subordination and recharacterization, § 363 sales and contested plans of reorganization. Mr. Ventola has particular experience in consumer product finance and other lending transactions and the heavily negotiated in- tercreditor arrangements that are often the key element in successfully completing those financing arrangements. He also frequently works with alternative investors, including private-equity sponsors and hedge funds, seeking to identify and acquire distressed companies or assets. Mr. Ventola is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He received his B.S. magna cum laude from Boston College in 1990 and his J.D magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1994, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif.